The best movies 1940 Pagina 6

The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A...

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove...

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force...

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky...

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife....

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the...

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family...

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Yet another fast-paced western featuring the "Three Mesqueteers," pulp writer William Colt McDonald's trio of sagebrush heroes, Lone Star Raiders...

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn,...

Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat,...

A U.S. marshal is sent to investigate a gang that is stealing horses from the cavalry.

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding...

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

A naive car caretaker must take care of a baby and search for his father.

The birds in question are a group of young ladies who, for different reasons, leave the convent where they grew up in order to face "the struggle of...

Love confusion between a girl and her benefactors.

A 1940 film directed by Alejandro Galindo.

It narrates the history of the Argentine ship that served for many generations like school for the formation of sailors.

Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with...

Unreleased Argentine film.

Religious melodrama about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her...

A 1940 film directed by José Bohr.

A 1940 film.

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968), a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the visit of the famous actor Bob Hope to Lima, accompanied by his wife and the manager of Paramount Pictures.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the procession of the Lord of Luren of Ica.